Arrrrh! It's The Cap'n's Birthday Now in Oz!

Happy birthday, ye olde bugger! Many more to ye!

Well, it's me oldest friends birthday (in Oz). Won'r be until 0001 here, but in Pyrate time, it's time to set sail on the "Twisted Sister" for booty and more booty (no nastiness now, me lads pieces o' eight are jus' tha')!

'appyBirfday,Cap'nStarkers!

So 'oist up th' Jolly Roger, ye lubbers! An' make it a birthday for the old Cap'n to remember!

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes, I truly appreciate them. I would like to thank you all individually, but my poor old arthritic hands get writers cramp - yes, WRITER'S cramp - and I didn't get any of that cure-all snake oil fer me birfday.

Yeah, it's sad that the young uns don't appreciate the aged for our experience and wisdom... the fact that we have SEEN things. Like Shaunna when she said that I was as old as dirt, and I said that, as a lad, I can remember when it was clean. Well didn't that start the great debate... that I could remember when it was clean... that it only got dirty over time. Well there was no convincing her, but we did agree on one thing... it was a very pleasant day.

My mother and sister came over for Sunday brunch and we had a lovely meal together. It's so nice to have loved ones around, and there was no better day for it than yesterday [Oz time]. The weather was great, the food was scrumptious and the company was the best.

Happy birthday, starkers, from the County where the real pirates come from.

Thanks, CY, I appreciate that... and how true. The WestCountry pirates were the original and best... the inspiration for Robert Newton's version of Long John Silver. Now, whenever actors portray pirates, they try to emulate the voice and accent of the WestCountry pirates, made famous by the one and only Robert Newton.

As a lad I spent many an hour exploring the caves used by pirates and smugglers in Devon and Cornwall... and though I wasn't supposed to [was only 16 at the time], some of the inns and pubs as well. Yeah, even though his profession was listed as a trawlerman, my great, great, great grandfather from Brixham did a bit of smuggling and pilfering on the high seas, so I actually have some ancestral links to piracy on mum's side.

Speaking of mum, you will no doubt conclude from my post a #16, that mum and Dave will not be coming to Cornwall to visit after all, as much as mum wanted to. To cut a long story short, things ended up not working out too well with Dave and she felt the need to return where the majority of her family is, here in Australia.... and it's unlikely that Dave would do it on his own. Mum couldn't get him to drive down once they'd been to Switzerland and while she was there, so there'd be a snowball in hell's chance of him doing it now.

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